Summary: <p>The word “impeachment” is in the air these days. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a website to find information about what the Constitution’s framers thought about impeachment or any other Constitutional issue.</p> <p>Well, <a href="https://www.consource.org/">The Constitutional Sources Project</a> is the place for you.</p> <p>The project, called ConSource for short, is a Washington, D.C.-based initiative to digitize and transcribe the documents that shaped the Federal Constitution, and increase our historical literacy.</p> <p>On today’s episode, you’ll hear from <a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/julie-silverbrook-jd">Julie Silverbrook</a>, ConSource’s executive director. Julie is an attorney and she is leading the charge to help us all better understand our constitutional past.</p> <p>If you'd like to support this podcast as well as new research into George Washington and his world, please consider becoming a <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/become-a-member/">Mount Vernon Member</a>. </p> <p><strong>About Our Guest:</strong></p> <p>Julie Silverbrook is Executive Director of <a href="http://consource.org/" target="_blank">The Constitutional Sources Project</a>, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization devoted to increasing understanding, facilitating research, and encouraging discussion of the US Constitution by connecting individuals with the documentary history of its creation, ratification, and amendment. Silverbrook holds a J.D. from the William & Mary Law School, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers Award and the Thurgood Marshall Award and served as a Senior Articles Editor on the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.</p> <p><strong>About Our Host:</strong></p> <p>Jim Ambuske, Ph.D. leads the <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/">Center for Digital History</a> at the Washington Library. A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World, Ambuske graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law, Ambuske co-directed the<a href="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/catalogue/"> 1828 Catalogue Project</a> and the <a href="http://scos.law.virginia.edu/">Scottish Court of Session Project</a>. He is currently at work on a book about emigration from Scotland in the era of the American Revolution as well as a chapter on Scottish loyalism during the American Revolution for a volume to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press.</p>
